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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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I'm impressed with how much Dahl got across for character and emotion in the short space of this novella! And it's always fun to see a librarian in a romance novel, although I do take issue with her saying the library's whole "shtick is quiet contemplation." (Um, not anymore Lauren!) Very hot sex scenes, and with two characters over 40, which is not common in #romance from my experience. This cover guy is too young to be Jake though, #badcover!

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ohyeahthatgirl
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm rereading this because it's been too long, but my edition's cover is AWFUL. I'm using this as my #badcover for #readharder2018 . Because it's sooo bad.

Smrloomis 😧😂😂😂 6y
JenlovesJT47 😂😂😂 6y
readordierachel Love it 😂😂 6y
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umbrellagirl That‘s meant to be Bilbo and Gollum? Oh my! 6y
2BR02B Bilbo looks like John Candy in a wig, and why does Gollum have a beak?? 6y
UrsulaMonarch 👏👏👏 6y
Erinsuereads It is just horrible!!! What did they do! 6y
saresmoore That really is an impressively bad cover. I kind of love it? 6y
Quasifesto 😮 That‘s next level right there. 6y
JessClark78 I have that set. Can‘t stand the covers. 😑😂 6y
8leagueboot This was the cover my brother had when I was very very young and I used to hide from it 😂 6y
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rachelm
Dawn | Octavia E. Butler
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Great book, #badcover. Butler's sci-fi novel digs into what makes us human and a complex set of questions about sexuality and survival. Lilith, the main character, is believable and compelling and I need the next book.....
#whitewashed cover, #80s hair

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Great book, and series... but yes... horrible cover! OMG 6y
OffTheBeatenShelf.com Even before I read your caption I saw the picture and immediately thought, “why the fuck are white people on the cover of a Butler novel?!?!” 😡 6y
rachelm @OffTheBeatenShelf.com yep! It's... um... bad. Like, page 9 of the novel it is very clear Lilith is black. 6y
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Sydsavvy
Bitter Greens | Kate Forsyth
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The Alice Network did not capture me so I put it down for now. I so loved this author's retelling of Beauty & the Beast in Nazi Germany (partly why I'm not connecting to Alice) so I decided to read her first book. This retelling of Rapunzel is set during the Sun King's reign about the woman who first wrote it, and the fairy tale is already coming alive to me. Definitely a Forsyth fan now❣️ Leah you will ❤️🙌🏻😎 #bitmoji #greatbook #badcover

LeahBergen Ooo! Interesting! 👀 7y
laurieluna She wrote a little known series before this called The Witches of the Eileanan too! Took me an age to track all 6 books down. I've read the first 2. Definitely adding this one to stack! X 7y
Sydsavvy @miralunasbooknook it's hard because I guess her publisher doesn't have the new books on Amazon, but the three big titles are on Audible so that's how I'm accessing her. If I had known, I would have bought her books at the conference, dumb me! 7y
laurieluna @Sydsavvy I think it's a series that's fallen by the wayside. She wrote it about 20 years ago and the copies I managed to get are from '98 to '02! Xx 7y
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rachelm
Dawn | Octavia E. Butler
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Posting this for @TheNextBook 's amusement. There's been a lot of chatter on Twitter today about the lack of POC on covers about and by POC. Here's an excellent example from 1987. Literally, page eight the narrator says that the boy she bears has "smoky brown skin, paler than her own." ??
#badcover

becausetrains To read... but not this edition 🙃 7y
TheNextBook Oh my gawd! Talk about whitewashed! Wow!!!! 7y
rachelm @TheNextBook horrendous, right? Yeah... not okay. 7y
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LibrarianRyan
The Complete Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi
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I just had to share this. Look what this library did to this beautiful book. It's sad. I've seen college and special libraries do all sorts of things, but this is the worst. #badcover

LibrarianRyan I should say the full book and cover is inside, but seriously, who would want to pull that off the shelf. 7y
Eyelit 😟👎 7y
TheLibrarian It probably would have been cheaper to buy a new copy. 7y
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LibrarianRyan @TheLibrarian I agree. But the copy underneath is fine. Looks brand new in fact. I bet they automatically do this to all paper backs. It's the only thing that makes sense. My alma matter take the book jackets off and gets rid of them. 7y
Smangela I didn't even know that was a thing 😳 7y
LibrarianRyan @Smangela yep. They have this HUGE teachers center full of kids and teen books and not a single one has a cover. 7y
Wife 😱😮😢 7y
ReadingEnvy We used to automatically do this to all paperbacks but ended up deciding it was cheaper to replace than bind. But to be fair this does help it sit on the shelf better, a serious issue in graphic novel land. 7y
jillannjohn 😡 7y
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Verity
Marriage Is Pure Murder | Staci McLaughlin
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On a cozy crime kick at the moment and this is the latest. I'm as undecided about the book so far as I am about the cover. I think the pig is hideous, but the rest of the image is ok... #cozycrime #badcover

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tasha
Anne of Green Gables | L M Montgomery
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#November 22 Good #Book #BadCover - this #cover sure cause a big #uproar in the #Anne world when it came out. Personally I love it. I think it's #hilarious 😂 I would love to have a physical copy for my #collection too! #AngieBookishNovember #bookchallenge #bookstagram #CanadianLiterature #canlit #coverlove #coverhate #booklover #AnneOfGreenGables #AOGG #LucyMaudMontgomery #LMMontgomery #AnneOfAvonlea #AnneOfTheIsland

badnorthern It looks like the cover for a Christian farm erotica, ha! 😛 7y
Bookish.Heart She's blond!! 😣🤔 7y
Bookish.Heart They could have at least given her raven colored hair. That's terrible lol 7y
niki.inwonderland I hate how they've sexualized her on this cover. So NOT like Anne at all. 7y
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JDHawkins
Old Man's War | John Scalzi
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Day 22 of #angiebookishnovember is #goodbook #badcover. I adore #johnscalzi. I love his books and I love his blog. I met him a few years ago at a bookstore in Brookline and he was super lovely. Old Man's War has since gotten a much better cover than this outdated nonsense.

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